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TL;DR : Got "dream machine" PowerTowerPro for $130CAD. Love it, super easy to work on! I've always dreamed of getting a PowerTower Pro ever since being 12 years old and seeing it hit the September 1996 cover of MacUser magazine. I picked up my dream machine (9500/132, cost $10,000CAD in 1995)...

Thanks @Swolfington for the 9500 bezel parts! I had 815-1690.stl and 815-1690_eject.stl printed on ABS to see how well it would fit first. I may sand this one down and paint it, or just get it reprinted with resin for a smoother finish (which I'm sure I'd have to sand anyway). I didn't install...

Hah, I wouldn't actually put a logic board in a dishwasher. We could take it to someone, but this is a skill that we should learn. I'll look into cleaning up the board myself. Recapping shouldn't be difficult either; I've had soldering experience in the past and I've got a new soldering iron...

I have not. I recall putting keyboards into the dishwasher when I was a lazy teenager but never thoroughly cleaned a logic board.

Attached is a photo of the caps that look like they leaked. I was able to take a q-tip and alcohol and significantly whiten the sticker quite easily. 

Regarding the logic board being recapped: no, and it looks like some of the caps may be slightly leaky, though I was told that it could also just be flux. These caps look easy enough to replace if necessary though. I haven't yet tried the soft FPU extension yet (as I try and do this fun stuff...

After my last post, I finally encountered a proper verbose error message in the Finder (see the attachment): "Floating point coprocessor not installed" I also tested out the Wish I Were control panel (that changes the Gestalt ID) and set it to that of a Centris 610 (which has the LC040 CPU). I...

I wouldn't necessarily think it would case the issue, but who knows. Maybe the AT&T DSP chip is expecting to talk to it in the background. It's just suspicious because the machine came with a full '040 in stock configuration. Perhaps the machine is just flaky or has bad on-board RAM.

Has anyone else tried running an SSD in a 9500? I brought my 9500 (acquired in 2012) to my condo to live with me full-time recently and was thinking about disk upgrades. SCSI2SD is an option, though I'd presume access times would be faster with a Tempo ATA card and an SSD.

There's a seller on eBay that has the 60ns, 5v, EDO, 168-pin DIMMs. Just ordered four of them for my 9500 last week and they should be arriving shortly. I'd rather not post the seller, but you can find them easily with that search (or just PM me and I'll let you know). This stuff is scarce so...

TLDR: Centris 660av came with 68LC040, not full '040 chip and it's acting weird. Looking for advice. Full story: I've recently acquired a Centris 660av for a friend of mine and noticed something interesting while getting the machine set up. This 660av came with a 68LC040 chip (the 25MHz one)...